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...James B. Conant '14, President Emeritus of the University, confirmed yesterday that he had received a grant from the Carnegie Foundation to make a two year study of the American public high schools...
...Conant is particularly interested in how the comprehensive high school educates those gifted pupils who are college potential. His study will deal principally with their education in Mathematics, Foreign Languages, and the ability to write clear English...
Because of its location in the temple of the Brahmins, WGBH is top-heavy with free talent. Recent shows included lectures by Pastor Martin Niemöller, Novelist Edwin (The Last Hurrah) O'Connor, Author-Ethnologist Oliver La Farge and Ambassador James B. Conant. British Labor Boss Hugh Gaitskell's three Harvard lectures on foreign policy were carried in full. Drama Critic Walter Kerr discussed contemporary theater with Playwright Arthur Miller. Harvard Law Professor Zechariah Chafee Jr. completed a 16-part series on the Constitution and human rights only a week before his death (TIME...
While President of Harvard from 1933 to 1953, Conant took an active interest in governmental problems. He was instrumental in founding, in 1937, the Graduate School of Public Administration, which sponsors the Godkin Lectures...
...Conant served for more than ten years on the Educational Policies Commission of the National Education Association, and became its chairman in 1951. He also was a member of the Committee on Relations with the Federal Government of the American Council on Education...